Record network responses for easy stubbing of external calls.

Net recorder hooks into NetHTTP to record the outgoing request path and method and caches the response. Then you can switch on fakeweb and it will use the cache from the recording.

gem install fakeweb

gem install netrecorder

Anywhere you use fakeweb, you can use net recorder.

Record all responses:

NetRecorder.config do |config|
  config.cache_file       = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'fakeweb')
  config.record_net_calls = true
end

Save recorded responses:

NetRecorder.cache!

Use recorded cache with fakeweb:

NetRecorder.config do |config|
  config.cache_file = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'features', 'support', 'fakeweb')
  config.fakeweb    = true
end

see cukes.info for more info on testing with Cucumber

# Find me in features/support/netrecorder.rb

NetRecorder.config do |config|
  config.cache_file = "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../support/fakeweb"    
  if ENV['RECORD_WEB']
    config.record_net_calls = true
  else
    config.fakeweb = true
    FakeWeb.allow_net_connect = false
  end
end 

at_exit do
  if NetRecorder.recording?
    NetRecorder.cache!
  end
end

record mode (command line)

>> rake features RECORD_NET_CALLS=true

cache mode (command line)

>> rake features